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- From: henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch)
- Subject: Re: Coming out at work - HELP!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.002723.14279@ads.com>
- Sender: usenet@ads.com (USENET News)
- Organization: Advanced Decision Systems; a div of Booz, Allen & Hamilton
- References: <1992Dec18.133312.10122@wixer.cactus.org>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:27:23 GMT
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- lazarus@wixer.cactus.org (Michael Lax) wrote:
- ->Well, last night was the office Christmas party. I've only been at this
- ->job for about two months (the probationary period is three months)
-
- the length of the probationary period doesn't matter; if they're going
- to fire you for being queer then they're going to sack you ...
-
- ->.... I'm getting ready to go to work and I'll be the first to
- ->admit I'm a bit nervous. Any ideas, history or suggestions about being
- ->out at work in a _very_ small (9 employees) company (which does have an
- ->anti-discrimination policy)? Thanks in advance for the support.
-
- yeah; just do what you need to do. act like the homo you are, and
- everyone who's going to like you will probably still like you, and
- those who don't will probably still call you a homo.
-
- seriously.
-
- --
- # henry mensch / booz, allen & hamilton, inc. / <henry@ads.com>
- # "fight the real enemy." -- sinead o'connor, and many others.
- # for information on the league for programming freedom,
- # write to lpf@uunet.uu.net
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